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Come on baby, let's go get you shot full of botox.
Posted by Pauldos! on 23/02/2007
Come on, baby. Let's go get you shot full of botox.
That's what I say to Caitlin when it's time to make the journey to Royal Brisbane Children's Hospi
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The chance of a lifetime.
Posted by Pauldos! on 19/03/2007
We met with the local doctors, and a doctor from America early this month. She flew in just for that meeting. The outlook is a bit more uncertain, now
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Almost there...
Posted by Pauldos! on 19/05/2007
After a complete debacle with the Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital, the MRI has now been done. The doctors examined the scans, and immediately appro
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Operation day.
Posted by Pauldos! on 10/07/2007
The rhizotomy operation was today. Caitlin was in surgery for 10 hours and 50 minutes. What a marathon. Poor Kaz was so distraught. I was content to w
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First days of recovery.
Posted by Pauldos! on 12/07/2007
I came to Brisbane after work this afternoon to be with Caitlin. She is still on morphine, but at least she was awake and speaking, albeit groggy. She
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A painful lesson about speaking up
Posted by Pauldos! on 14/07/2007
Well. Drama day today. Caitlin likes being the 'brave little girl', which was her undoing today. She refuses to admit when she's in pain. She was take
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Toilet duties, and ward musings.
Posted by Pauldos! on 21/07/2007
Caitlin's recovery is coming along well. She has feeling in her legs but still does not have any feeling in her feet, and very little movement in her
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The daily schedule for recovery and rehab.
Posted by Pauldos! on 28/07/2007
It all seems like hard work. As Caitlin's recovery progresses, her exercise regime gets more intense. I'll run through what we did on Saturday.
I arri
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Am I a doctor now? and more ward musings.
Posted by Pauldos! on 04/08/2007
Every week I go to Brisbane to spend the weekend with Caitlin, and every week Kaz updates me on what to do and what not to do with Caitlin. And, of co
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No escaping the hospital.
Posted by Pauldos! on 11/08/2007
Caitlin's recovery is coming along well, and she is starting to get itchy to get out of the hospital. She can now spend as much time as she likes sitt
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No longer an inpatient.
Posted by Pauldos! on 15/08/2007
I got a phone call from Kaz today. Caitlin no longer has to stay at the hospital as an inpatient. She still has to go to hospital for physiotherapy ev
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The unstoppable kid.
Posted by Pauldos! on 18/08/2007
It was great to spend the whole weekend with Caitlin, and no running backwards and forwards to the hospital. The hospital took Caitlin's wheelchair to
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Keep dreaming, little girl, but no more nightmares please.
Posted by Pauldos! on 20/08/2007
I was planning on bringing Caitlin home to the Gold Coast this coming weekend, just for the weekend, but it seems she couldn't wait. I got a phone cal
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Preparing for the long journey
Posted by Pauldos! on 30/08/2007
The operation, and the post-operation, periods are over. Caitlin has now begun the slow process of recovery. She has not needed any medication since l
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Birthday girl
Posted by Pauldos! on 21/09/2007
Caitlin's birthday was the other day. We brought her home for the day to celebrate. She had a small party for family and a few friends from school who
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Discharged from hospital
Posted by Pauldos! on 27/09/2007
Caitlin was released from hospital today. It has been two and a half months since she went in for the rhizotomy operation. She is so happy to be home.
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An interview with Caitlin
Posted by Pauldos! on 28/09/2007
Most of this page has been not about Caitlin's experience, but of my experience as Caitlin's father. So, today, I decided to ask her some questions. M
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Walking, not walking, and disabled parking spaces
Posted by Pauldos! on 28/10/2007
I was hoping to publish a picture of Caitlin taking her first steps un-aided, because last week she took one step without her walker, but there has no
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Singing girls, and the problem of the feet
Posted by Pauldos! on 07/12/2007
I have talked about children with other parents over the years, and I have found that it's almost unanimous that boys are easier to raise than girls.
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Strogg Medical Facilities
Posted by Pauldos! on 11/12/2007
Caitlin is back at Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital for the week this week, for more intensive therapy and another assessment of her progress. Kaz a
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Merry Christmas
Posted by Pauldos! on 24/12/2007
Caitlin came back from the Hospital a week ago with new tools - quadsticks. These are the next stage of learning to walk. The quadsticks are walking s
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Work, work, work... and escalators.
Posted by Pauldos! on 15/03/2008
Well, happy new year. Sorry about the lateness of this update, but work has been unbelievably heavy since the start of the year. I have been bringing
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Smiley Caitlin - in the news again.
Posted by Pauldos! on 26/04/2008
Caitlin was back at the Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital last week for four days for another assessment. They are happy with Caitlin's progress, and
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One year later...
Posted by Pauldos! on 16/07/2008
It's been a year since the rhizotomy operation, and progress has been very good. Caitlin has been using the single-point sticks since April, and is ve
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The One Year Assessment
Posted by Pauldos! on 29/07/2008
It's never a dull moment around here. What is it that my children call me? Oh yeah, that's it - 'master of disaster'.

Kaz and Caitlin had been sta
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